Re: [PATCH] silence gcc warning about possibly uninitialized useof variable in scsi_scan

[James Bottomley]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 19:23 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > gcc version 4.0.3 20051201 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5)
> >
> > Doesn't give this warning.  And, since the loop has fixed parameters,
> > gcc should see not only that it's always executed, but that it could be
> > unrolled.
> >
> > Which version is causing the problem?
> >
> 2.6.16-rc4-mm2 build with gcc 3.4.5

I also tried with

gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)

which likewise fails to give this warning, so I really think this is a
bug in your particular version of gcc.

James


> and I agree that gcc really should be noticing, but in fact it
> doesn't. It's no big deal, I just thought we might want to shut gcc up
> and give people one less warning to worry about.
> 
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